Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 32 | By looking at the diagram though , you will probably see that the smaller sleeve length is also narrower at the top than the measurements in your size . |
| 33 | These skills are again evident when Tamburlaine successfully manages to woo Zenocrate with lines such as : ‘ Zenocrate , lovelier than the love of Jove ’ and ‘ Fair is too foul an epithet for thee ’ . |
| 34 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 35 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 36 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 37 | Apart from the infiltration of the local anaesthetic , when the patient will feel a prick in the back , less painful than the anaesthetic for dental work , all that is felt is a pressure on the lower spine with occasionally a faint ‘ tingle ’ in one leg which simply signifies that the needle is in the right place . |
| 38 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 39 | Thoughts of the bills returning to Gomez 's alligator-skin billfold were unpleasant , but less unpleasant than the thought of being shot in the head . |
| 40 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 41 | ‘ The shock waves will be felt a lot further than the streets of Tyneside . ’ |
| 42 | Yet the statements of attainment are in most cases much less detailed than the sequences of behavioural objectives in use in many special schools . |
| 43 | It is also a living resource centre stocked with a range of information on the English language that is wider and more detailed than the contents of any one of its publications ( or anyone else 's publications ) , and able to adapt and respond to the requirements of the non-specialist language user . |
| 44 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 45 | Men die to win democracy for their countries , which after a while is taken grudgingly ; and its practitioners come to be seen as less skilled , worthy and entertaining than the aristocrats of sport . |
| 46 | Evidence to support this speculation is available from countries such as japan where the gender imbalance is much less marked than the countries of western Europe . |
| 47 | The changes have clearly been more marked than the changes in the distribution of income . |
| 48 | Recent history has , for example , a mass character more marked than the history of earlier times . |
| 49 | The fronting of objects and complements is much more marked than the fronting of adjuncts in English because objects and complements are fairly restricted in position . |
| 50 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |
| 51 | ‘ I thought it would take too long to do but it was easier than the problems of printing . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 53 | Ah , no , I mean cos violence and drugs is more harmful than a load of girls , you know , doing stupid things on s street corner . |
| 54 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 55 | Zip , about 3cm shorter than the length of one side ( excluding seam allowance ) . |
| 56 | Processing times are also much reduced due to the lists of words being shorter than the lists of grams . |
| 57 | Cut the gripper strips about 40mm shorter than the width of the stair carpet so that edges wo n't show , and do the same for the underlay , which should fit from the end of each strip on the tread , over the nosing , up to the edge of the next strip on the riser . |
| 58 | If the text is shorter than the width of the block reduce the width to that of the text by dragging the handles in before you copy the text . |
| 59 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 60 | Hence his argument that ‘ the knowledge of history is no more historical than the knowledge of sugar is sweet ’ . |